Bogus daylight phone calls.

I get BS phone calls all day long. I usually ignore them and block their spoofed numbers. I have all the insurance I need, am not interested in selling my house yet and will not buy a warranty on a twenty year old mini van.

Today I answered a phone call. It was a recording in Spanish. I began to poke numbers until.someone came on the line. "What are you selling?". They hung up on me. I called the displayed number. It was a spoofed number.

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windinhishair · 61-69, M

I get four or five per day even though I have been on the do not call list for over 15 years. I sometimes pick up and mess with the scammer to keep them occupied. I created a fake credit card number that appears to be legit and has the correct format, and they keep trying it, but it never works. Then they ask me to give them the number on the back of the card so they can call the company and get them to make the card work. I give them a phone sex line which they then call. Usually they hang up at that point.

Being able to curse in both Spanish and Hindi is beneficial as well.

SW-User

@windinhishair the do not call list seems utterly useless ... not if you could electrocute scammers when they call ... that would put a stop to things ...

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@windinhishair Ooh, that's a thought. I don't know Spanish or Hindhi but I could grab my road-atlas and spout a list of Welsh or Gaeilc place-names as if speaking in those languages! (Though I'd find ther Gaelic pronounciations hard.)